EDLD 5352 Web Conference ~ 2/11/12

Today's web conference (2/11/12) was most informative. Many questions were answered concerning Epic and TK20. We found out that our Reflections need to be posted to TK20 only; this is sufficient.

We will soon be receiving on our Discussion Board, a checklist of everything needed to be posted to TK20.

Also, Tutorials for Lamar University Educational Leadership LCE study course is posted at this website: http://sites.google.com/site/luedlead/
copy and paste in your browser. You can take this exam as many times as needed. You must achieve 80%.

Action Plan ~ Integration of Technology

Technology Plan of Action

Hierarchy of Responsibility

Technology Plan of Action

Explanation of Responsibilities

It is the role and responsibility of the campus administrator to carry out the Technology Plan to the fullest. The principal must provide opportunities for educators to have access to technology training, professional development, and the tools necessary to carry out and meet the requirements of the school’s technology plan. Educators’ lesson plans must include student usage of technology within all lessons, in all core content areas. Formative and summative assessments will be carried out by the campus principal as means of evaluations of the implementation of the technology plan.

Technology Plan of Action

Professional Development Activities

For the purpose of achieving the Technology Action Plan of integration of technology with Instructional and Organizational Leadership

Activity	Purpose	Presenter
Data Analysis & Review 1-distinguish the differences in 3 data resources 2 - Analyze/Review data: STaR Chart, AEIS, AYP, & SIP	Through collaboration of PLC's, document how instructional and organizational leadership can enhance instructional strategies and student learning with the use of integrating technology as a result of analyzed data.	Principal and Assistant Principal (for the purpose of modeling technology and confirming formative assessments will be taking place).
Explore the Texas Long Range Technology Plan: 1 - Locate the plan on the web 2 - Secure grade level TEKS 3 - Present a lesson plan within each core content area utilizing and implementing teacher and student use of technology	Through PLC's, campuses will establish technology curriculum alignment, and 21st-century learner's classroom. Stepping away from out-of-date instructional strategies and taking advantage of our "digital native" students.	1 - Principal and Assistant Principal (for the purpose of modeling technology and confirming formative assessments will be taking place). 2 - Each grade level share examples of lesson plans
Mini In-depth training "Teacher requested" help in areas of weaknesses concerning technology with instructional and organizational leadership	Teachers feel risk free to ask for help in areas of weaknesses, the school addresses these areas in order to enhance instructional strategies and student learning with various levels of training from beginner, intermediate, to advanced.	1 - Principal and Assistant Principal (for the purpose of modeling technology and confirming formative assessments will be taking place). 2 - Experienced and well advanced educators in specific areas mentioned.
Investigate various technology resources To be implemented into curriculum instruction within core content areas such as: Podcasts, Webcams, Wiki-wiki, online textbooks, United Streaming, Brain Pop, CSCOPE, blogs, etc.	Provide teachers with at least 3 technology tools/resources to be implemented into curriculum instruction within core content areas.	1 - Principal and Assistant Principal (for the purpose of modeling technology and confirming formative assessments will be taking place). 2 - experienced and well advanced educators in specific areas mentioned.
Integration of technology in core subject areas. This will be an "on-going" training during every OFYP day scheduled throughout the year to focus on the upcoming curriculum lesson planning.	To assure technology use is being implemented within all subject areas. All lesson plans will include websites including Cybersmart! Cybersmart! will be taught during the first week of school in every class/every grade.	1 - Principal and Assistant Principal (for the purpose of modeling technology and confirming formative assessments will be taking place). 2 - Experienced and well advanced educators in specific areas mentioned.
Formative assessment - teacher awareness of administrators formative assessments which line up to that of data driven data such as STaR chart, etc.	Administrators must conduct formative assessments of the implementation of technology in order for today's students to stay abreast of education in today's technology world.	Any and all district administrators

Technology Plan of Action

Evaluation Planning for Action Plan

For Implementing Technology

Tasks	Person Responsible	Resources	Timeline	Evaluation
Analyze state and district data to assess students’ academic strengths and weaknesses pertaining to technology	Administrators & Educators	STaR Chart AEIS AYP TAKS/STAAR District Benchmarks	Yearly as the reports are available Yearly Assessments Every 9 weeks	Yearly/ every 9 weeks
Educators must utilize technology TEKS within weekly lesson plans	Administrators & Educators	Lesson Plans	Weekly	Formative assessment of classroom instruction utilizing technology according to TEKS noted within lesson plan
SmartBoards utilized during instruction	Administrators  & Educators	Weekly instruction	Weekly	Formative assessment of classroom instruction utilizing technology
Educators must utilize technology as a form of communication with students and stakeholders	Administrators  & Educators	Weekly communication	Weekly	Formative assessment of weekly communication by viewing classroom Blogs

Charting Central's STaR

Charting Central STaRs

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Texas Long Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020 ~

EDLD 5352 Blog Post #1 (week 2 assignment)

The Texas Long Range Plan for Technology is composed of four parts: Teaching and Learning; Educator Preparation and Development; Leadership, Administrations, and Instructional Support; and Infrastructure for Technology. Texas has the goal to provide all students with access to the digital tools and resources that are designed for their individual learning styles at anytime and any place. This plan includes parents, allowing them to be more directly involved in their child’s educational progress. Included is much needed help for educators in which they can access student information at all times, allowing educators to prepare for students the most individualized instruction ever.

The Teaching and Learning section demonstrates the impact technology can have on student learning as it provides the tools for students, educators, librarians, and administrators. The Technology Applications strands concerning TEKS for Grades K-12 are: Technology Foundations, Information Acquisition, Work in Solving Problems, and Communications. The ultimate goal is that the Technology TEKS will be integrated within all other core content areas.

In the area of Teaching and Learning, the state is showing a positive trend. However, our campus has seen from 2008-2011, a negative trend. I personally believe this is due to the fact that when we first begin the Campus STaR Chart, we responded to the questions with the present technology tools and skills we presently possessed at that time. In the past few years, technology has advanced quickly, and it has taken our school perhaps longer to acquire these tools. However, now we have many of these resources which we are developing our skills of utilizing these tools for the best benefit of our students. This explains how we went from Advanced Tech for two consecutive years, to Developing Tech.

My recommendation for improvement in this area of technology is two-fold. First, I would provide hands-on professional development and training utilizing these tools several times throughout the year. I would “require” my staff to demonstrate knowledge and skills in technology concerning classroom instruction. Second, I would do formative assessments of all the classroom instruction, assessing where my educators are as being Early, Developing, Advanced, or Target Tech. Any teacher rated within the Early or Developing Tech area, would be partnered with a teacher that is Advanced or Target Tech in order to be mentored. 

The value in assessing educators' technology leadership knowledge and skills is vital as this is the only means of assuring our students are afforded the opportunity to learn and become technology knowledgeable and skillful. The great thing about technology assessment is that it allows us to chart our progress of growth. In my opinion, there are no cons to technology assessment, because our state and nation must be assessed continually to push ourselves closer and closer to being fully equipped and technology savvy as the Texas Long Rang Plan for Technology has mapped out for growth and success.